Senior Finance Business Partner

Finance Business Partner Opportunities

Application Deadline: 26 June 2026

Department: Executive Team - Finance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London or Edinburgh

Reporting To: Sevinj Essien

Compensation: £57,317 - £68,481 / year

At the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), finance plays a vital role in helping us deliver our purpose of regulating nursing and midwifery professionals in the public interest. We're strengthening our Finance Business Partnering function and are looking for two exceptional finance professionals to join us in newly enhanced strategic roles. Whether you're an experienced strategic finance leader looking to influence organisation-wide decisions, or a commercially minded finance partner with a passion for operational insight and transformation, these opportunities offer the chance to make a real difference in a complex and evolving organisation.

About The Team

Our Finance team is transforming the way financial insight supports decision-making across the NMC. We are moving beyond traditional reporting to become trusted advisers, helping leaders understand performance, manage risk, optimise resources and make informed decisions that deliver lasting value. Working in partnership with colleagues across the organisation, our Finance Business Partners provide robust challenge, meaningful analysis and forward-looking insight that helps shape strategy, improve performance and support delivery of our organisational priorities. You’ll join a collaborative, ambitious team that values integrity, accountability, inclusion and continuous improvement.

Your Role & Impact

As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you’ll be a key strategic adviser to Executive Directors and senior leaders, providing financial leadership that influences major decisions across the organisation. You’ll lead budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning processes while delivering sophisticated analysis, modelling and scenario planning that helps leaders understand risks, opportunities and strategic trade‑offs. You’ll challenge assumptions, support investment decisions and help drive a culture of financial accountability and performance. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys operating at a strategic level, influencing senior stakeholders and translating complex financial information into clear, actionable insight.

• Strategic business partnering with Executive Directors and senior leadership teams
• Leading budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes
• Financial modelling, scenario analysis and business case development
• Driving organisational performance through insightful reporting and challenge
• Supporting financial governance, risk management and continuous improvement
• Developing and mentoring finance colleagues

This newly created role offers a unique opportunity to embed financial expertise directly within our Professional Regulation Directorate. As the Operational Finance Business Partner, you’ll work closely with operational leaders to transform how the Directorate understands its costs, workforce requirements and operational performance. You’ll lead the development of activity-based costing models, workforce planning tools and benefits tracking frameworks that provide unprecedented visibility into operational performance and resource utilisation. You’ll partner with senior operational stakeholders to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions and support major transformation initiatives through robust financial analysis and decision support.

• Designing and implementing Activity-Based Costing methodologies
• Developing workforce and capacity planning models
• Supporting major transformation and improvement programmes
• Delivering detailed operational cost analysis and performance insights
• Enhancing forecasting accuracy through activity-based planning
• Identifying and quantifying cost efficiencies, benefits and operational risks
• Building financial capability across operational teams

For both roles, you’ll be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with proven experience in finance business partnering and a track record of influencing decision-making through high‑quality financial insight.

• Strong commercial and analytical thinking
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
• The confidence to provide constructive challenge at senior levels
• Advanced financial modelling and problem‑solving capability
• The ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to non‑finance audiences
• A proactive, collaborative and solutions‑focused approach
• Experience operating successfully within complex and changing environments

You’ll additionally have experience of:

• Partnering with Executive Directors and senior leadership teams
• Leading budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning processes
• Building sophisticated financial models and scenario analysis
• Supporting investment decisions, business cases and organisational change
• Leading or developing finance teams

You’ll additionally have experience of:

• Activity-Based Costing (ABC) or similar unit‑costing methodologies
• Workforce and capacity modelling
• Financial analysis within operational or service delivery environments
• Benefits realisation and transformation programme support
• Linking operational performance drivers to financial outcomes

• 30 days annual leave
• Enhanced Pension Contributions via our attractive Pension Scheme – with a basic 8% employer contribution as standard which increases up to 14% with optional added Employee Contributions
• Life Insurance – 4 x current salary
• Hybrid working
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 24 Hours Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Perkbox membership
• Subsidised restaurant in our Portland Place office
• Season ticket loans